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looks like we need something like banker's rounding for time based exchange.

seriously though, if it were found that people organically produce cyclical values of traded commodities (even tiny variances) would that not be a perpetual money making machine? and isn't that kind of the point to all the analysis business schools teach? find these patterns and exploit them? or is that graph not organic, rather evidence of the actual fraud they were committing? and if so, shouldn't there be some statistical bot looking for these kinds of shenanigans?

big differences here from silverlight...

1) no plug-in (assuming all browsers implement their optimizations)
2) promises of ~1/2 native performance
3) already runs everywhere
4) vendor neutral

regarding ea.. that's just bad business. the tech can still be used for "good". i was thinking more about lob applications for the enterprise. imagine all those existing, boring business apps built on .net that just push data around could now run happily in everyone's browser without a plugin? i'd buy into that. 

after reading a bit more, it looks like gc is a challenge so you can't quite compile to asm.js directly from c# just yet.

this stuff looks very impressive. https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/03/27/mozilla-is-unlocking-the-power-of-the-web-as-a-platform-for-gaming/

if asm.js takes off as the pseudo-assembly of the web, would it be feasible to get the clr virtual machine running in the browser too?

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i'm very bummed. i link pulse newsreader to my google reader account and it's the best reading experience i've found for ipad and iphone. the fact that you can just subscribe anywhere to an rss feed and have it show up in pulse was a great feature. i wonder if the linkedin buyout of pulse had anything to do with the kill decision.

yeah, "pseudo" development platforms could make use of code generation. imagine a runtime engine with a separate designer that allows you to visually create new runtime objects, set properties, wire up relationships, ect, then the code generator implements any number of core engine interfaces and dumps out the runtime models... although i'm not sure if T4 templates can be used outside of VS. 

my iphone didn't present me with an option either.

PetaPoco has some T4 templates that allow you to auto-generate the POCO classes against an existing database. It's a great time saver.

edit* now that i think about it, a cool T4 project would be to automatically generate POCO deserialization classes from actual JSON. That could make working with restful JSON services a little easier.

have you tried it with a full path?

can you execute any asp script using that Server.Execute() just to eliminate the python aspect of the problem?

maybe your app pool identity needs to be in iis_iusr group (total guess there).

i think sony will have to offer something big... like free or very cheap streaming of legacy games in order to compete with the nextbox.

sony has always been a hardware company with software added on to support that hardware while ms comes from the opposite direction.

as consumers start to expect more and more out of that big expensive box that sits in the living room, ms will be in a better position to meet all those demands... the entertainment streaming, cloud storage, social integration, ui (including kinekt which i believe will eventually become the main interface for "os" interactions) and just overall user experience is going to be much better on the nextbox because that is all in the software and the infrastructure/experience to support it.

i'm not saying sony has bad software people, but they can't compete with ms. ps4 hardware may very well be better than the nextbox in every way, but i think the "os" and supporting eco-system will be more important for the majority of consumers as long as the hardware is good enough to be considered next gen.